You can make more friends in two months by becoming more interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get people interested in you
A new acquaintance is like a new book. I prefer it, even if bad, to a classic.
As in the case of wines that improve with age, the oldest friendships ought to be the most delightful.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods.
It goes without saying that you should never have more children than you have car windows.
In the sweetness of friendship let there be laughter, and sharing of pleasures. For in the dew of little things, does the heart find its morning and is refreshed.
The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married. When it isn't they blame the other person, which is clearly absurd. I believe that is what generally starts the trouble.
Books like friends, should be few and well-chosen.
Friendship was given by nature to be an assistant to virtue, not a companion in vice.
Constant use had not worn ragged the fabric of their friendship.
A friend should be a master at guessing and keeping still.
Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else.
Sometimes we owe a friend to the lucky circumstance that we give him no cause for envy.
Friendship is nothing else than an accord in all things, human and divine, conjoined with mutual goodwill and affection.
Friends and acquaintances are the surest passport to fortune.
Friendship is a single soul dwelling in two bodies.
I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends.
A blow from your friend is better than a kiss from your enemy.
Women can form a friendship with a man very well; but to preserve it, a slight physical antipathy most probably helps.
The family is one of nature's masterpieces.
Shared joys make a friend, not shared sufferings.
